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Prince Harry Not Allowed To Make Claims Of Bugs Or Tracking Devices In Lawsuit, Judge Decides


A London High Court Judge has said his claim against News Group Newspapers must be settled or go to trial.

Prince Harry has been told by a London High Court judge that he will not be allowed to bring claims that he was the victim of bugging and tracking devices. During his summing up, Mr Justice Fancourt described the lawsuit as resembling a campaign between “two obdurate but well-resourced armies” that is taking up “more than an appropriate” amount of court time. He had criticism for both opposing parties, for Harry in adding “new causes of action that had not been pleaded in the original draft” and for the publisher in raising new objections to parts of the prince’s claim.

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